Business

May 16, 2005 12:00 AM - Scott Sonner, Associated Press

A judge has sided with conservationists trying to block construction of thousands of homes north of Lake Tahoe, saying a local development plan "builds in opportunities to create environmental mischief" and violates California law.

May 16, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press

Police are investigating a real estate deal in which the environment minister -- now Portugal's prime minister -- gave the go-ahead in 2001 to chop down 700 protected cork trees to build houses, a sports complex and a shopping mall, the newspaper Publico said Saturday.

May 16, 2005 12:00 AM - Ray Lilley, Associated Press

Green Party lawmakers in Australia and New Zealand are considering urging consumers to boycott Japanese products to protest Tokyo's plan to expand its annual whale hunt, the party's co-leader said Monday.

May 16, 2005 12:00 AM - Paul Geary, ENN

May 13, 2005 12:00 AM - Anna Johnson, Associated Press

The group that accredits U.S. zoos and had been reviewing elephant care at the Lincoln Park Zoo expanded its investigation to the entire facility Thursday after learning three monkeys had died this week, officials said.

May 13, 2005 12:00 AM - Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times

Five years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency moved to phase out homeowner sales of diazinon, a popular lawn insecticide that posed human health risks and had shown up at elevated levels in Seattle-area streams.